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> less friendly to governments Citation needed. The European Union Public License is copyleft and it's literally written by governmental bodies.
by eeZah7Ux 6y ago
> less friendly to governments
Citation needed. The European Union Public License is copyleft and it's literally written by governmental bodies.
- southerntofu 6y agoYes but not all governments are the EU, and not all governments of the EU publish anything, even loss so under copyleft. Even a government like france which is involved in strong open-washing campaign has serious Microsoft ties behind the scenes (education & military mostly) and despite all the promises for 100% OPEN, keeps on introducing closed-source algorithm which are paid for with millions of euros of public money and whose results are very sketchy to say the least (i'm looking at you ParcourSup). So, when i said "less friendly to governments", i did not mean from a legal perspective. I meant AGPL is only one expression of a global approach to software development that is focused on user empowerment. Such software is usually less concerned with problems of big organizations (including governments), and less likely to try and reinforce governmental control (which is something most governments are looking for in a product). Does that make sense?
- psychoslave 6y agoWell, both the mere citizen and government are users who like to have as much control on their digital tools. The difference seems to be more on who this power is expected to be exerted on. Individual themselves in the former, the national population for the later.